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Originally Posted by twowheels
For no particular reason, this post got me to thinking about reading under the covers a child: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=57
I used to hide under the covers with the flashlight and read well past my bedtime, hoping not to get caught from light leaking around the edges. I was often in trouble with my parents who said that I needed to escape the fantasy world of books and live in the real world more.
So... it made me wonder... how about posters here? Did you have to sneak reading time? Did you read a lot? Did your parents feel that you read too much, not enough, or no opinion?
Edit: My 's' key seemed to have been stubborn when making the poll. Ooops. :-) |
At best times (for me, not so much for my parents) I've read a book per day.
Between 9 and about 12 I've read the classics such as Robinson Crusoe (at least 6 or 8 times), Count of Monte Christo, Moby Dick and so on.
My parents liked it at first, but after a while especially my father "forced my out of the living room" to go play.
As always, you (in this case my parents) want what you don't have.
Most parents of my friends did envy my parents: "I wish my son would at least read a single book once in a while".
At the age of 11 or 12 my situation did escalate a bit. I had started to collect comics and books (quite successfully in trading and expanding my collection) and my mother threw out a few hundred comics, simply because I had occupied more or less every locker in the house.
I didn't read very often in bed, under the covers. I found it too inconvenient and already got my 5+ hours reading time in the afternoon.
I still have parts of my collection of paper books from those days in my cellar: At least 5.000 comics and about 1.000 paperbacks. Lots of them I had been buying second hand and I'm not touching them anymore. But I can't bring myself to throw them away either. I'd gladly give them to my 11 year old niece, but she finds reading absolutely boring - as her grammar and spelling unfortunately show.